IRELAND
Irish Independent
YOU may have read or heard in the last few days that the Vatican is threatening to excommunicate a priest – Fr Tony Flannery – because he believes in women priests.
Yes, he does believe in women priests, but no, he won’t be excommunicated for that. And according to the ‘Irish Catholic’, he isn’t going to be excommunicated for anything else either.
In fact, no priest or theologian that I can think of has ever been excommunicated for believing in women priests.
The only two priests I can think of who have been excommunicated in recent years are Tissa Balasuriya and Roy Bourgeois.
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